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There are many tutorials for setting up mod_rewrite for Apache, but most of them are missing one critical step. To be honest, I’m writing this as much for myself as I am for anyone else. I’m tired of looking around for the missing step every time I setup mod_rewrite on a new machine. So here […]
Read MoreJust a few days ago marked the third birthday of this website. Once again, I didn’t give the site the attention I had planned to. Nevertheless, I’ll publish a review of the year as a whole and look at what the next year might bring. Statistics Here’s a quick look at some details of the […]
Read MoreWhile attempting to create a consistent cross-browser font baseline, I ran into the following strange behaviour in certain browsers (not IE for once!). Any monospaced font was rendered smaller than the surrounding text, even when specifically set to display at 1em. I found this to be true in both Firefox and Chrome. After a bit […]
Read MoreUpdate: The first piece of code had an unexpected side effect that is addressed in the update at the bottom of this post. CSS media queries and jQuery window width calculations each handle scrollbars differently. This can cause unexpected (and ugly) results when they are used together. I was recently building a responsive menu system […]
Read MoreLet’s face it, if you’re a developer you want to make things as simple as possible for your clients. One way to do this is to set the default media sizes when your theme is activated. Your users should never need to try to figure out the width of the content area. They shouldn’t have […]
Read MoreJason Schuller of Press75.com mentioned on Twitter yesterday that the taxonomy UI in the WordPress admin could use some improvement: “In regards to custom taxonomies, it would be nice to have just one tabbed box within the editor instead a separate box for each taxonomy.” I thought that sounded like a good idea, so I […]
Read MoreUpdate: After further testing, it appears that a bug in Internet Explorer prevents the drop down menu from opening. There are a number of ways to get around this IE bug, but I’m not going to go into that here. I was building a drop down menu while working on a personal project and I […]
Read MoreRecently I was working on a project where I was writing some PHP and HTML source code documentation and publishing it via WordPress. As you may know, the WordPress visual editor isn’t ideal when it comes to handling such code. Consequently, I went looking for a way to set the default editor to HTML rather […]
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